News Coverage

Deloro

Deloro mines final cleanup plan announced Ontario’s Minister of the Environment Leona Dombrowsky launches the long-awaited MoE plan for the closure of the Deloro Minesite at a Deloro community meeting. The Community Press, Eastern Edition November 19/2004

MoE could be fined for arsenic sludge spill at Deloro The Ontario Minister of the Environment and Leona Dombrowsky, MPP for Hastings, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington are taking the overflow of the arsenic sludge storage lagoon at the Deloro arsenic treatment plant very seriously. Community Press March 26/2004

River in toxic trouble, activist says Janet Fletcher tells The Whig-Standard she’d like to see an investigation into the ministry’s Certificate of Approval and “the whole toxic mess up there.” Kingston Whig-Standard August 28/2001

Province acquitted in mine pollution case Judge accepts defence of due diligence in cleaning up Deloro. “It was a surprise and a shock,” said lawyer Doug Chapman, who was confident of a conviction. “Maybe now they’ll do something to clean it up.” Toronto Star June 28/2001

Big court ruling EBI spokesperson Janet Fletcher says that while she’s disappointed with the Deloro ruling, her group intends to monitor the clean-up. CKWS Newswatch June 27/2001

Polluting charges against environment ministry: trial ends “I believe, in the end, it’s going to be a matter of the judge determining whether the ministry is, in fact, above the laws that they’re supposed to enforce, or whether they are responsible under the law,” says Janet Fletcher. CBC Radio April 18/2001

Environment ministry releases study An Ontario government study suggests that the abandoned Deloro Mine site is not harming the environment — a picture which is not entirely accurate, according to EBI’s Janet Fletcher. News transcript April 12/2001